Sometimes it is difficult to like both the rocks and the sea. My eyes follow the cliff, past the water’s edge into the depths of the ocean below, and then back up the cliff, and then down into the depths. But often I end up in between, landing on my paddleboard and am just grateful to be where I am and see nature in its entirety. It’s amazing to be a tourist in my homeland, along a coast I loved and experiences bits of and now seeing it in from a new perspective.

For it is truly diverse. From wind and rain to sidewind and sun, then the sea like a miror and back again to waves. No day is ever the same. Somehow time stretches and the days are long and full of experiences, of life. Just ‘staying alive’ takes time; exploring, finding a good island to camp, put a roof over your head, take some photos, pick a little trash and cook meals takes a whole day. There was no time or charged batteries to write the blog for several days. I’m sorry.

During the last days we have spent more time underwater. The Swedish underwater is world often more beautiful the further north one goes. The regionLysekil is notorious for its beautiful diving so when me and Erik, who is a professional deep diver, approached the area we made some monster paddling days to stop and dive a little. One of my first dives when I started diving was Släggö, just outside Lysekil harbor. Since the fantastic dive center Dive team Lysekil is next door and Daniel with his team are so nice, we stayed as long as we could and had time for a super nice nature-dive around the island. I actually like to breathe underwater, too. Freediving in all it’s glory, but it’s something special about leaving the surface in one place, to stay there for over an hour and pop up in another place. To spend an hour in a completely different world, weightless and floating in silence, it’s magical.

I have hundreds of photos, but help yourselves with them for a while, then maybe more later tonight! :-)